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by erikw 2mo ago
Very interesting that Fable took more creative liberties. Have you tried giving Fable the same task, but also specifying that it implement a pixel-perfect design? I think that I prefer the Fable implementation. I find the UI elements in the
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by erikw 2mo ago
You can programmatically update DNS whenever your dynamic IP changes. One issue though is that some residential ISPs prohibit webhosting in their terms.
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by erikw 8mo ago
I don't know about this... I think that the "expert" AIs on RTS games just get more resources (not compute resources, but in-game resources) so they can create more units. I'd love to play against an AI component that ha
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by erikw 8mo ago
I'm surprised that you can get non-attendant citizenship in Canada. They don't even give automatic citizenship to children of Canadian parents born outside of Canada (maybe if both parents are Canadian they do, but my experience i
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by erikw 8mo ago
Saint Kitts and Nevis sells passports, so I imagine that is the rationale. I see some other microstates on the list that fit that pattern as well.
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by erikw 8mo ago
My reflexive response was "xfce is ugly, and that's by design", but actually, this looks pretty slick: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/13k5p5o/xfce_my_x...
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by erikw 9mo ago
Love Plato- it’s so performant! I’ve always wondered why Kobo doesn’t just throw out what they’ve got and fork it.
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by erikw 10mo ago
Have you verified that these "academic bureaucracy roadblocks" exist? Surprisingly, I was able to pick my studies back up after almost 20 years, and not only were all of my existing credits counted, but they also exempted me from
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by erikw 11mo ago
When I was last working in Chile on a SaaS product for use in Chile, we deployed everything to US-EAST. We still had local CDN caching, but it is always nice to be closer to your hardware. I can't tell from the article what types of da
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by erikw 1y ago
I don't know that that will happen- not even Windows is as smooth as MacOS. But that's because Microsoft and Linux developers are tackling a more difficult problem- getting an OS to work with effectively infinite hardware permutat
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by erikw 1y ago
I'd be curious to understand their rationale for not making a small, reasonably priced phone like the iPhone SE used to be. I probably will be leaving the iPhone ecosystem the next time I have to buy a smartphone (even though I use a M
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by erikw 1y ago
I'm so tempted to try improving my language skills with Anki, both for my native language and my daily use language. But the commitment feels so daunting- I've barely missed a day in my reviews for the last two years, and only hav
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by erikw 1y ago
I think that the author was using Anki incorrectly, and that led them to the spurious conclusion that "Anki is dead". I also have attempted to use Anki this way- using someone else's deck to try to force myself to learn somet
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Brave1 Market – Ukraine's New Online Marketplace for Drones, Kit and Equipment [video](youtube.com)
3 points by erikw 1y ago|0 comments
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by erikw 1y ago
What language / framework are you using? I ask because in a Node / Typescript / React project I experience the opposite- Claude 3.7 usually solves my query on the first try, and seems to understand the project's context,
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by erikw 1y ago
Interesting... I asked o3 for help writing a flake so I could install the latest Webstorm on NixOS (since the one in the package repo is several months old), and it looks like it actually spun up a NixOS VM, downloaded the Webstorm package,
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Exploring RF Beamforming: A Practical Hardware Approach(youtube.com)
4 points by erikw 2y ago|0 comments
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by erikw 2y ago
Will be interesting to see what this looks like in the cooler seasons. Temuco and Santiago especially are in bowls, and with lots of diesel vehicles and woodburning stoves, these cities are very smoggy in the winter.
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by erikw 2y ago
All West Coast states have free healthcare (medicaid) available if your income is below a certain threshold. And there is no time limit on that. It won’t help with rent, but at least these folks won’t be completely without healthcare access
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by erikw 2y ago
That never occurred to me, but sounds wonderful! I wonder if modern interfaces would have ended up more navigable if there had been the expectation of these dedicated keys on every keyboard?
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Light Communication on CH32V003 [video](youtube.com)
4 points by erikw 2y ago|1 comments
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by erikw 2y ago
In one of my friend groups (consisting of folks in their 20s-30s and including both university students and professionals, mostly in the US) I’ve noticed a cultish obsession with the idea that the “system” is stacked, success is due solely
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by erikw 2y ago
1st Kindle DX: Screen cracked, not sure why. Maybe thermal stress? Amazon replaced for free. 2nd Kindle DX: Stopped booting, no physical damage. Kindle: Rolled on it after falling asleep, screen cracked. Kindle Oasis: Dropped directly on it
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by erikw 2y ago
>> It seems like all of these eink devices are designed that way. After going through 5 Kindles, I got a Kobo reader a few years ago, and couldn't be happier. It is more expensive than the Kindle because the price isn't subs
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by erikw 2y ago
Yes, regulation in the US requires that vehicles be able to protect their occupants in pretty extreme crashes. Part of that requires a crumple zone, which means you can't fit many people inside a small car. For example, the Smart Fortw
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by erikw 2y ago
I don't think you can legally sell a new small vehicle in the US, so the root cause is legislation that prevents this. I believe that if you could legally produce kei sized vehicles in the US, there would be a massive market for it, es
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by erikw 2y ago
A DNS misconfiguration is often the root cause of an issue. Hence the saying “it’s always DNS”.
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by erikw 2y ago
And the inverse is also somewhat common- forms which require both a maternal and paternal surname, and won’t let you continue with just a single surname.
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by erikw 3y ago
To continue on your point, the apprenticeship model of construction means that anyone can decide to get on the path to becoming an electrician today- starting on the lowest rung, but getting paid pretty well from day 0. In contrast to becom
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by erikw 3y ago
A lot of Japanese Kei cars fit that description, and they are available in every big market except the United States. I like to daydream about an alternative universe in which Suzuki was still operating in the US.

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